If this graphene can be made into a material and hold a charge you could end up with powered clothes which could well take the fashion industry by
storm. You could power your laptop by plugging it into your shorts.

This was being done at UCLA and reported on March of last year!!!
SEE This. www.zdnet.com...

Of course it's a big deal. That article is probably when they were first making these breakthroughs. We've now had enough time for them to start
mass manufacturing these types of batteries... and I'm still worried we wont see that day any time soon.

This doesn't really effect oil companies too much, since a lot of electricity is generated with oil anyway...

Actually not, virtually no petroleum is used for generating electricity in large scale, only remote areas without infrastructure.

For the energy, petroleum is much more expensive than gas or coal, because it is more flexible & transportable.

Gas and solids are less flexible, harder to transport, and thus cheaper per energy. Generating plants take gas and coal.

And I would not underestimate the power of battery companies when they are put in a situation like this. They control a huge sector of the
energy industry because batteries are used in so many different places. Unless these battery companies could start making their own graphene batteries
they are in trouble.

Some could and would. There is a huge jump from an academic lab discovery to production products: you have to know how to manufacture, quality
control, battery management hardware & software systems, benchmarking and sales.

This is actually good for battery makers: basic science comes up with a new technology which improves the range of applications for batteries compared
to combusting fossil fuels. Within the industry some may win and some may lose, but overall it's a plus.

Researchers in the US have made a graphene-based supercapacitor that can store as much energy per unit mass as nickel metal hydride batteries –
but unlike batteries, it can be charged or discharged in just minutes or even seconds. The new device has a specific energy density of 85.6 Wh/kg at
room temperature and 136 Wh/kg at 80 °C. These are the highest ever values for "electric double layer" supercapacitors based on carbon
nanomaterials.

What exactly does that energy density mean in english?

It means that it's got about the same energy storage, on a per kg basis, as a lower end lithium ion battery. Li-ion has a storage density of around
100-265 Wh/kg. 85.6 Wh/kg is massive for a cap, even if it isn't quite as good as you can get from an electrochemical cell. It's at least
comparable, though.

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Researchers in the US have made a graphene-based supercapacitor that can store as much energy per unit mass as nickel metal hydride batteries –
but unlike batteries, it can be charged or discharged in just minutes or even seconds. The new device has a specific energy density of 85.6 Wh/kg at
room temperature and 136 Wh/kg at 80 °C. These are the highest ever values for "electric double layer" supercapacitors based on carbon
nanomaterials.

What exactly does that energy density mean in english?

It means that it's got about the same energy storage, on a per kg basis, as a lower end lithium ion battery. Li-ion has a storage density of around
100-265 Wh/kg. 85.6 Wh/kg is massive for a cap, even if it isn't quite as good as you can get from an electrochemical cell. It's at least
comparable, though.

Now to really drive the point home we need to look at storage density per $. Li-ion is an expensive and difficult tech, Graphene on the other hand is
cheap and easy to manufacture. Remember this is only graphene 1.0. The major cost of the electric car is two fold, $ cost of batteries and
recharging time. Well graphene addresses both of these issues. Big oil will not like this one little bit. They will fight back!

If this graphene can be made into a material and hold a charge you could end up with powered clothes which could well take the fashion industry by
storm. You could power your laptop by plugging it into your shorts.

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Now that would be a supper awesome peace of equipment

Going for a night jog or cycle with material of that caliber will light a man up like a Christmas tree. Just imagine a shirt with thousands of mini
led lights that can light up in any form of pattern that can be reprogrammed into a on board chip. You could advertise your business whilst keeping
fit and feel more at ease from distracted drivers

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